[BC] Oldest Transmitter still in daily service

[Mike Erickson]

I know WNBZ 1240 AM in Saranac Lake NY has a Gates from the early 1950's as
their main (and I believe ONLY) transmitter.

=Mike Erickson=


On 12/10/05, Scott Fybush <scott at fybush.com> wrote:
>
>
> >Now and then, people have mention Gates BC-1F's on the list that are
> still
> >running, but I don't recall where. The BC-1F dates to about 1950. I think
> >if you look hard you might also find a few Collins 20V2's out there, and
> >those date to the mid-50's.
>
> There is a Collins of that vintage that's still running at KSTN in
> Stockton, California. I can't find my notes from that trip to confirm
> the model number, and I'll have to get with Paul Shinn, their chief,
> to confirm. (If anyone can figure it out from a not-very-good
> picture, there's one here:
> http://www.fybush.com/sites/2005/site-051118.html)
>
> I can say with more certainty that the two oldest transmitters I've
> seen that are still in place, albeit non-working, at an active
> transmitter site are a 1930 McClatchy homebrew 100-watter at KWG in
> Stockton (you can see it at the URL above, too), and of course the
> 1927 Western Electric at WLW. Sadly, I was told during my last visit
> to WLW a month ago that the heat exchanger for the Western failed a
> couple of years ago, and so the old beast isn't currently operable -
> but, being WLW, they hope to get it fixed sometime soon.
>
> s
>
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